A dog for Christmas?

The Monday before Christmas, Daniel, an elementary school student knocked on our door, mumbled something that we sort of understood and then handed us a white dog. We think he mentioned its name, which is Japanese for white. So, for one evening, we "owned" a dog. (It actually belongs to one of our students who houses it on the other side of campus. We were heading that way later in the evening, so we decided to let it stay with us for a little bit.) She peed 3 times, got lost multiple times in our monstrosity of a house and also fell asleep on us. We enjoyed having the dog for the evening, but were glad to see it leave. Here are some pictures of that evening. Enjoy

It is currently 12:00 am and we wanted to wish everyone who is reading this a Merry Christmas and also a Happy New Year. You are in our prayers (as always)! May you have a glorious time during this part of the year. We miss you!

Enjoy the picture. It shows one of our favorite cities and also one activity that I believe ALL Taiwanese love to do. Again, enjoy!

- Heather and Phil

Christmas Party

Monday evening we had a Christmas party. It included a talent show, large quantities of sugary deserts, a secret santa gift swap and a surprise appearance by none other than Santa Claus. It was pretty awesome.






I had an awesome secret santa. Some of the gifts I received over the last week include:

• X-Max Dancing Palace - Traditional Christmas songs put to techno beats.
• Dried mangos
• A bag of toy dinosaurs. They are now guarding my office.
• Nunchakus

Awesome!